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| author | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2016-05-06 14:21:02 +0200 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2016-05-20 14:18:36 +0200 |
| commit | 43c71fad3a51d841132ba15a7a5930e1ee4126ed (patch) | |
| tree | 669fa559ee36e4dd26804a518d4a590eca9f7bb4 /doc | |
| parent | a6f8c07f83e4e5a8155c04feab543dc0c82ed495 (diff) | |
edsp: add Forbid-{New-Install,Remove} and Upgrade-All
This allows to differentiate properly between 'apt-get upgrade', 'apt
upgrade' and 'apt full-upgrade'.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt index 9b9073346..c932b8b77 100644 --- a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt +++ b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt @@ -156,17 +156,26 @@ The following **action fields** are supported in request stanzas: Install. This field denotes a list of packages that the user wants to remove, usually via APT `remove` or `purge` requests. -- **Upgrade:** (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values: `yes`, +- **Upgrade-All:** (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values `yes`, `no`. When set to `yes`, an upgrade of all installed packages has been - requested, usually via an APT `upgrade` request. - -- **Dist-Upgrade:** (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values: `yes`, - `no`. Same as Upgrade, but for APT `dist-upgrade` requests. + requested, usually via an upgrade command like 'apt full-upgrade'. - **Autoremove:** (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values: `yes`, `no`. When set to `yes`, a clean up of unused automatically installed packages has been requested, usually via an APT `autoremove` request. +- **Upgrade:** (deprecated, optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values: + `yes`, `no`. When set to `yes`, an upgrade of all installed packages + has been requested, usually via an APT `upgrade` request. A value of + `yes` is equivalent to the fields `Upgrade-All`, + `Forbid-New-Install`and `Forbid-Remove` all set to `yes`. + +- **Dist-Upgrade:** (deprecated, optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed + values: `yes`, `no`. Same as Upgrade, but for APT `dist-upgrade` + requests. A value of `yes` is equivalent to the field `Upgrade-All` + set to `yes` and the fields `Forbid-New-Install`and `Forbid-Remove` + set to `no`. + The following **preference fields** are supported in request stanzas: - **Strict-Pinning:** (optional, defaults to `yes`). Allowed values: @@ -178,6 +187,14 @@ The following **preference fields** are supported in request stanzas: field comes from the `APT::Solver::Strict-Pinning` configuration option. +- **Forbid-New-Install:* (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values: + `yes`, `no`. When set to `yes` the resolver is forbidden to install + new packages in its returned solution. + +- **Forbid-Remove:* (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values: `yes`, + `no`. When set to `yes` the resolver is forbidden to remove currently + installed packages in its returned solution. + - **Solver:** (optional, defaults to the empty string) a purely informational string specifying to which solver this request was send initially. |